Tomorrow Party

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tomorrow Party (ElGhad Party)
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|

Party Motto	Hand in Hand, we build tomorrow, (yad fi yad, nebni elghad)
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|
Chairman	Dr. Ayman Nour
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|
Founded	2004
Headquarters	Cairo
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|
Political Ideology	Liberalism, Liberal Democracy
Papers	AlGhad Newspaper - Weekly
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|
Website	www.elghad.org
colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Tomorrow Party/meta/color"\|
See also	Politics of Egypt Political parties in Egypt Elections

The Tomorrow Party (Arabic:حزب الغد Hizb al-Ghad) is an active political party in Egypt that was granted license in October 2004. Al-Ghad is a centrist liberal secular political party pressing for widening the scope of political participation and for a peaceful rotation of power.

The party is working with some representation the Lower House of Parliament, the People’s Assembly. The party currently does not hold any seats in the Upper House, the Shura Council.

At the first party convention held in October 2004, Ayman Nour, a Member of Parliament and a practising lawyer, was elected as Party Chairman. The party was founded by former members of the New Wafd Party. The party was created to represent a liberal democratic perspective, with a strong interest in human rights issues. Nour used the party as a platform to call for constitutional reform, limiting the president's powers and opening presidential elections to multiple candidates. Ayman Nour is estimated to have received 12% of the vote at the presidential election of 2005. In the parliamentary elections of that year, the party won only 1 seat.